Author Archives: Francis Pellicciaro

A leopard is chasing a zebra, bound to follow the laws of nature and natural selection, down a sand dune and across a plain of dried mud, bound to the laws of geology and sediments. The stripes of the zebra are akin to the ripples ...

You take a deep breath and feel the bare skin on your chest and shoulders expand against the cold November air as the skin on your arms tightens and the goosebumps rise. It is midnight and you are standing in a crowd of thousands of ...

In Africa in the 1980s, 3,000 kudu antelopes unexpectedly died over the course of a few weeks in an enclosed area. They were not killed by hunters or disease — they were killed by trees. Acacia trees from which the antelopes were eating leaves deliberately ...

Night has fallen over the Ohio State campus and a student is looking through YouTube on a classroom computer that professors use during the day. The student finds a hip-hop beat to play on the classroom’s speaker system and a whole new lesson has begun. ...

A greyhound walks along the tiled floor of a veterinary hospital, a place he often visits, without barking. A veterinarian takes the animal into a room and places him on the hospital bed, where a needle is slipped into the dog’s neck. This dog ...

It is midnight and a vacuum begins to whir on the fourth floor of the 18th Avenue Library, and for a moment a few students look up from their books and laptops. Wyatt Ward is a custodian and a contractor from Goodwill Columbus who works ...

A man with arrest warrants for multiple felonies is out on bail, living on a 60-foot houseboat and traveling down the east coast of the United States. He missed his court date, and appears to have no intention of stopping on his trip south. The ...

The third and final day of the 2015 Rock on the Range hard rock music festival began as a day of oppressive summer heat and music that was brought to boiling point. It was hot enough in the early afternoon that just standing around made ...

The second day of the 2015 Rock on the Range hard rock music festival was the scene of intermittent rain, most of which was very light — but the music came in a downpour. “You havin’ a good day, Ohio?” yelled Austin Carlile, singer for ...